Arabic-L:LING:query on grammar conceptualization (Arab vs. European)

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Date: 01 Aug 2006
From:"Uhlmann, Allon" <uhlmanna at umsl.edu>
Subject:query on grammar conceptualization (Arab vs. European)

Hi Everyone,

A couple of questions:

1.  Do you know of any references that systematically compare the way  
Arabic grammar has been conceptualised and taught in the Arab world,  
vs the  way it has been conceptualised and taught in Europe?

2.  In his intro to "A Grammar of the Arabic Language" Wright  
mentions Lumsden's 1813 work (A Grammar of the Arabic Language) as  
one of his major sources, but proceeds to write that it "is based on  
the system of the Arab Grammarians, and therefore but ill-adapted,  
apart from its bulk and rarity, for the use of beginners."  (pp v- 
vi).  I have superficially skimmed parts of Lumsden's 702-page volume  
on microfiche, and it appears that he raises some theoretical  
objections to concepts of comparative linguistics, but it did not  
strike me that the material is conceptualised in a radically  
different way from other European sources.  I will look further into  
it, but on the off-chance that somebody out there might know what  
Wright was referring to, I thought I would ask the list.

Thanks for your help.

Salamaat,
A.

Allon J. Uhlmann
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
University of Missouri - St. Louis
http://www.umsl.edu/~uhlmanna/

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